Oddities

Skeletons:

1) I can kill the large skeletal footmen/archers/mages in about one hit. This is probably a bug.
2) They often don't ressurect, but they aren't dead yet either. They go down, their corpses are not lootable.

Trees:

If I fail to chop down a tree, it still falls to the ground. Reharvesting will raise it back up on the 2nd chop.

Harvestables:

If you're looting a successfully harvested harvestable, and you get attacked, the loot window closes.

Confirmation bias and clustering illusion aside, the success rate shown when harvesting is wrong. I currently have 58% chance success on red spider corpses, and today, I failed 14 times in a row. I also failed on a node I was harvesting which advertised a 100% success rate. SOTA, you're cheating!

(Would it be possible to have an option to auto-reharvest when you fail? I feel like I'm getting carpal tunnel on all the re-clicks. Also, each time I re-harvest, my avatar marks time for about 4 beats before he gets back to work).

Merchants:

In Owl's head, the crafting vendor and the weapons vendor refused to deal with me. Someone told me I need to talk to a guard first, which worked. This seems like a needless step.

Banking:

I had some MAJOR items expire on the auction house, and I never got them back, though I did get my paltry gold refund.

Items sometimes do not autostack in the bank, and need to be manually merged.

Spectral foothills:

Well, those bandit champions and marksmen are tough! i.e., they take forever to kill, and the exp is about 1500 each, which I find pretty meager in comparison to the obsidian stags, and large red spiders which take 1/10th as long to kill, and give as much/more xp.

My weapon:

My weapon currently has a durability max of 90. It used to be 100. What happened to my 10%?

Picking up a pickaxe:

When I pick up a pickaxe off the ground, it becomes my wielded weapon. Who on earth would want this to happen? A similar thing happened when I crafted a piece of plate armor. I realized 10 minutes later when I tried to clomp something that I was wielding a blacksmithing hammer in one hand, and a hot chisel in the other.

Overland map:

When I exit a scene, can you orient me in the direction I was facing when I entered? It's discombobulating to have to reorient each time I'm dragged into a spurious battle.

Weapon combos:

Quadruple slash is still completely impotent. I saw the note about it supposedly doing more damage against armored critters, but it's still the equivalent of a feather-duster. Smoldering shiv's DoT is also still pretty weak for the front-loaded damage you're sacrificing from the two glyphs to use it. The DoT damage should somehow scale.

 

Some great comments there,

I'd like to particularly emphasise these ones:

"Someone told me I need to talk to a guard first, which worked. This seems like a needless step."

"When I pick up a pickaxe off the ground, it becomes my wielded weapon. Who on earth would want this to happen?"

"When I exit a scene, can you orient me in the direction I was facing when I entered?"

 

They may be summons from other undeads - like skeleton mages and liches. They yield no loot.

 

This is an artifact of the earliest releases when you began the game in Owl's Head and talked to a guard as your first interaction. We'll remove that requirement next release.